If you've ever looked at a blank page while sirens screamed, inboxes blinked, and the news made you want to give up on language itself-good.

You are exactly the kind of writer this book is for.

And maybe, just maybe, by the time you reach the end of this book, you'll stop asking who has the time to write and start saying something quieter, truer, weirder:

I am still here. And that means the story's not over yet.